Bill DeBlasio is term limited out of the job….
Yang is ‘sounding out’ a run with ‘Big Apple’ movers and shakers…..
Yang first thought about a 3rd part try, but THAT would not work….
He’d be entering the already crowed NY Democratic field….
But Yang has several advantages….
He’s a national political figure ….
He ran a national political campaign ….
He’s got money….
New York City has a large Asian-American population….
One possible disadvantage….
He’s a national political figure ….
“It sounds like Andrew Yang is running for mayor and seems excited about his path to win,” said one person who spoke to Yang, who has decamped to Georgia to volunteer for the U.S. Senate races of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
As POLITICO recently reported, Yang’s team conducted a poll testing whether he could succeed as a third-party candidate, but a person familiar with his thinking said he would instead join the crowded field of Democrats vying to win the primary in June 2021.
The New York Post on Tuesday reported that Yang dominated in a Slingshot Strategies survey of 1,000 Democratic voters conducted between Nov. 30 and Dec. 6. The technology entrepreneur was the first choice for 20 percent of respondents, followed by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who received 14 percent and 11 percent, respectively.
In a separate question testing the advent of ranked-choice voting — a system of selecting five candidates and ranking them in order of preference — Yang was ranked first by 17 percent of respondents and second by 12 percent, putting him first both times….
Update*…
Yang IS running ….
Andrew Yang, the former tech executive who gained a national following as a Democratic presidential candidate, has been privately telling New York City leaders that he intends to run for mayor next year.
Mr. Yang is not expected to announce his bid until next month, but with the Democratic primary less than seven months away, he has begun to make overtures to several of the city’s political power brokers….
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